Blog Posts by Susan Egner
Inspirations, thoughts by Minnesota author and flight attendant
Let’s try this again. Halloween is a little over a month away and it’s a controversial holiday. Yes it dates back to pagan times when people believed that on All Hallowed’s Eve, the night before Halloween, the veil was very thin between those who had passed and those who still lived. Thus, that night they […]
I posted this picture several years ago but I always enjoy the story. That’s my father holding the big Graphix camera. He was a reporter for the Florida Times Union and was covering President Eisenhower reviewing the troops on the US Saratoga aircraft carrier. Those old cameras used large flash-bulbs and while daddy was shooting his picture, one of them exploded. No questions asked, no explanation allowed, he was hauled off by the Secret Service. What made the story so funny, is when my dad’s picture was developed, Eisenhower was the only one who didn’t duck. This picture I’m showing was taken by Rocco, another Times Union photographer. Wish I had the picture my dad took. I’m currently writing a fictional biography of my father, Louis O. Egner. We heard so many of his stories but when I tried to get him to record them for me, he only recorded a few. This is one of those wonderful memories.
Being both a flight attendant and author, the pandemic has relieved me of flying duties and enhanced my opportunity to write, research and write some more. I have used the time to update my website and worked with a wonderful website developer, Nancy Hendrickson, to refresh and rebuild my site. I’ve also been working with a savvy social media consultant (Susan Murphy) to improve the posts of a most unsavvy social media user. Me. Thank you to both. I have completed two mysteries. One, in tune with Halloween, will be posted just prior to that scary holiday, hopefully for a scary read. The other, I’m holding back in an effort to get an agent. We also re-worked the art for the cover of Destination Unknown, which is to the left. I hope you like it and will consider it for your next read. If you do, please write a review and remember to review other books you’re reading. Authors really need to hear your thoughts. Just before the Pandemic stopped much of our flying, I attended the Minnesota Writers Workshop and submitted pages of my most recent mystery for review. Yesterday I had a wonderful conversation with the agent that reviewed my work and I’m hopeful that I’m moving in the right direction to someday be in print.